The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy anticipates that the incoming Trump Administration will pose immediate and ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

At the heart of central Africa's great rainforests lies Kisangani, a small city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River. The town began as a ...

Produced by IATP as part of the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, this four-part limited podcast series examines the history and consequences of factory farms in the Midwest U.S., and the ...

The global food system has three principal vectors: (1) the corporate model of industrial and transgenic agriculture, (2) a variety of alternative models concerned with the sustainability of rural ...

Claudia Aurand is the associate director of development at IATP. Karen Hansen-Kuhn is the director of trade and international strategies at IATP and works in Washington, D.C. Program Associate for ...

Fresh fears over the safety of genetically modified foods surfaced faced yesterday after new research revealed that food allergies relating to soya increased by 50 percent last year. A study by Europe ...

A hamburger is a grilled patty of ground beef served with lettuce, onions and a mountain of french fries. This is the staple diet of many college students whose culinary skills are limited to pouring ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, November 12, 2002 (ENS) - Some of the Phoenix area's poorest neighborhoods also have the region's highest concentration of toxic hazards, conclude two new studies by researchers at ...

It is not easy to describe systems thinking. After all, the very heart of a systems approach is the opposite of simple: complexity. That is exactly why IATP chooses a systems approach — because in ...

The rise of factory farms in the U.S. didn't happen by accident. Corporate influence over our political system has created policies that subsidize and incentivize the industrial model. But our food ...

On 15th August it emerged that Bayer's new agricultural wing, Bayer CropScience (1), was responsible for the illegal planting of genetically modified (GM) oil seed rape (OSR) contaminated with an ...